WATCH: Whoopi Goldberg winning Best Supporting Actress | 63rd Oscars (1991)
October 22, 2021
WATCH: Whoopi Goldberg winning Best Supporting Actress | 63rd Oscars (1991)
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October 22: First black post office opened in the South, 1955
October 22, 2021
ober 22: First black post office opened in Atlanta, GA, 1955
October 21: The Black Fashion Museum is opened in Harlem, 1979
October 21, 2021
October 21: The Black Fashion Museum is opened in Harlem, 1979
Civil Rights activist, Historian Timuel Black Dies at 102
October 15, 2021
Black died Wednesday, his widow told the Chicago Sun-Times and WLS-TV.
Objection your honor: Bar Exam Comes Under Further Scrutiny
October 14, 2021
When the coronavirus pandemic struck, some states allowed law graduates to postpone taking the two-day, 12-hour exam for public health reasons. Meanwhile, George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis in May 2020, and subsequent racial unrest that summer, raised awareness of the bar exam’s role in keeping people of color out of the profession.
October 12: Former New York Knicks Player Charlie Ward Born, 1970
October 12, 2021
October 12: Former New York Knicks Player Charlie Ward Born, 1970
Town Honors First Black Tow Truck Business Owner in Delaware
October 11, 2021
A flatbed tow truck from Harris Towing Group sat silently in front of Bennie Smith Funeral Home in Dover Thursday night, a solemn reminder that Delaware businessman and trailblazer Luke J. Harris Jr. had died at age 76 on Sept. 18.
Group Begins Work to Revitalize Africatown Community
October 11, 2021
Longtime residents of the Mobile community called “Africatown USA” recall the days when it was a beehive of activity, with Black descendants of the last slave ship to land in the United States tending gardens, running businesses and filling churches. Today, much of the place is a dilapidated landscape of empty lots and ramshackle, vacant homes.
Couple Preserving Florida House Linked to Martin Luther King
October 11, 2021
A house connected to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is now in the hands of a couple who plans to preserve it.
October 11: Malcolm X gave a profound speech at the University of California, Berkeley, highlighting “philosophy of black nationalism.” 1963
October 11, 2021
October 11: Malcolm X gave a profound speech at the University of California, Berkeley, highlighting “philosophy of black nationalism.” 1963
WATCH: Daniel Robinson’s Father Wants All Missing Persons Cases Treated Equally
October 8, 2021
Daniel Robinson’s Father Wants All Missing Persons Cases Treated Equally
WATCH: Tree planter, Nobel Prize laureate, revolutionary: Prof. Wangari Maathai at 80
October 8, 2021
Tree planter, Nobel Prize laureate, revolutionary: Prof. Wangari Maathai at 80
George Floyd’s Family Members Launch `Thank You’ Tour In Leimert Park
October 8, 2021
Members of George Floyd’s family were in Los Angeles today to launch their “Thank You Tour” across the U.S. to show their appreciation for the millions of people who protested in 2020 to demand justice and call for an end to police brutality and racism after Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer.
Remnants of Black Church Uncovered in Colonial Williamsburg
October 8, 2021
The brick foundation of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches has been unearthed at Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum in Virginia that continues to reckon with its past storytelling about the country’s origins and the role of Black Americans.
WATCH: Melvin Van Peebles – Wisdom | The Big Heart (2015)
October 8, 2021
Melvin Van Peebles – Wisdom | The Big Heart (2015)